Gibraltar vets make daily patrols to check macaques for coronavirus

Authorities want to shield Europe's only wild monkeys from threat of Covid-19

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Officials in Gibraltar are making daily patrols of the territory's Barbary macaque population amid fears that the iconic monkeys could be vulnerable to the coronavirus.

The British overseas territory has been relatively spared by the virus, documenting about 1,500 confirmed cases and six deaths. But as governments around the world wrestle with how to keep the coronavirus at bay, authorities in the Rock are grappling with an additional worry: how to shield Europe's only wild monkey population from the virus.